Jan. 21, 2014
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Jacqueline Bisset on Queen Latifah's couch. / The Queen Latifah Show

by Olivia Barker, USA TODAY

by Olivia Barker, USA TODAY

Whether you call it awkward or "authentic" - as Queen Latifah did today - Jacqueline Bisset's rambling, raw acceptance speech was one of the top takeaways from this year's Golden Globes.

And today the actress took to Latifah's couch to try to explain what was going on up there at the podium.

Starvation, it seems. Not to mention thirst (for the kind of beverage not typically associated with the Champagne-sodden Globes).

"I absolutely didn't expect to win," Bisset said. "I was - the time (for her category) was switched on me" from the beginning to the end to "then suddenly, I was on."

But sorry, Tina and Amy: It seems when her name was called, "I'm thinking about other things. I'm vaguely listening to the show. I'm thinking where the hell - why didn't I get my dinner? They'd given me a little sandwich, but they'd closed the kitchen. But we came late. We were 2½ hours on the red carpet - 2½ hours. So we were tired and we were thirsty. And drinking. And looking for something fun to do - eat, drink. We didn't get to that."

So when her name was called, her words "just did a twist on itself," Bisset said. "It just came out mixed, and all kinds of thoughts came out mixed, but ultimately, when I started that speech, I was thinking, 'I want to thank the people that have given me joy and the people who had given me grief.' I was about to say that I kind of forgave them, too, because it was such a great learning process as an actress. All that pain you get in your life, it feeds your instrument, your library of things you can do when you're on film and you're acting. But then it got twisted up, and I thought, 'Where is this coming from?' "

"In my opinion, you set the bar" for Golden Globe moments, Latifah gushed.